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egm tried the sheng long hoax again with street fighter iii and once again got some people to believe it.
coldplay to back the tories - on april 1 2006 the uk guardian journalist "olaf priol" claimed that chris martin of rock band coldplay had decided to publicly support the uk conservative party leader david cameron due to his disillusionment with current new labour prime minister tony blair [3], even going so far as to produce a fake song, "talk to david", that could be downloaded via the guardian website [4]. despite being an obvious hoax, the labour party's media monitoring unit were concerned enough to circulate the story throughout "most of the government" [5].
4.side-effects of april fools' day
the frequency of april fool hoaxes sometimes makes people doubt real news stories released on 1 april.
hawaiians running from an approaching tsunami in hilo, hawaiithe 1 april 1946 aleutian island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people on hawaii and alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically the pacific tsunami warning center), established in 1949 for pacific ocean area countries. the tsunami is known in hawaii as the "april fools' day tsunami" due to people drowning due to thinking the warnings were an april fools' prank.
gmail's april 2004 launch was widely believed to be a prank, as google was known to include joke pages on their website, until that point.
the merger of square and its rival company, enix, took place on april 1, 2003, and was originally thought to be a joke. fans of the long running square series final fantasy often claim that the merger was in fact a joke due to the decline of the series after the merger.
the 2005 death of comedian mitch hedberg was originally dismissed as an april fo
ols' joke. the comedian's march 29, 2005 death was announced on april 1, 2005.
demashita! powerpuff girls z was announced for production by aniplex, cartoon network, and toei animation on 1 april 2005 and was originally discredited, but turned out to be true when poster art and clips from the series were revealed days later.
people obeying hoax messages to telephone "mr.c.lion" and "mr.l.e.fant" and suchlike at a telephone number that turns out to be a zoo, sometimes cause a serious overload to zoos' telephone switchboards.